enervated
Americanadjective
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Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023
Moreover, this episode is edited in such a busy manner that enervated viewers may just wait it out to see who lives, who dies and how any double crosses play out.
From Salon • Mar. 3, 2023
Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022
For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2021
He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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